Perspectives on Secondary Forest Management in Tropical Humid Lowland America
| Autor: | Ludwig Kammesheidt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Conservation of Natural Resources
Population Dynamics Geography Planning and Development Animals Wild Biodiversity conservation Agricultural land Animals Environmental Chemistry Tropical Climate Ecology Land use Agroforestry business.industry Agriculture Central America Forestry Subsidy General Medicine Vegetation South America Geography Forest resource Caribbean Region Secondary forest Cattle business |
| Zdroj: | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. 31:243-250 |
| ISSN: | 0044-7447 |
| DOI: | 10.1579/0044-7447-31.3.243 |
| Popis: | Secondary forests regrowing on abandoned agricultural land constitute an important, albeit widely overlooked, component in the landscape matrix of tropical lowland America. These ‘new’ forest resources on private land-holdings derive either from unsustainable cattle-ranching practices of better-off farmers or are part of the crop/fallow system of resource-poor farmers. If previous land use was light, secondary forest management may offer an interesting use option to better-off farmers, providing that subsidies for stand improvement are given. Improved fallow systems using partly the successional vegetation may be a way to establish sustainable small-scale agriculture for resource-poor farmers. Given some technical and financial input, land-use systems based on secondary vegetation could play a vital role both in sustainable landscape management and biodiversity conservation. |
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